Zoku was born of a prestigious family, prosperous and upright.
His mother, the city’s most sophisticated and religious woman taught him the odes and rituals to please the spirits.
His father, the most industrious and honest of all the landlords taught him the value of working and working with others.
His family is well respected and almost envied; a comfortable home, loving parents, educated and upright siblings, Zoku could not ask for more.
Everything seemed right, and pleasing…
Not until his ninth birth year, when a tragedy befell.
Undeserving, Zoku’s mother contracted a disease that even the city’s most powerful acolytes, priestesses and even sorcerers cannot cure. And so his mom peacefully bore the pain until the fortnight before the dawn of Zoku’s tenth birth year. On his tenth birth fête, Zoku was burying his beloved mother.
And so the tragedy fell.
Grieving at his loss, Zoku’s father started drinking and gambling. In a length of a quarter of a year, the entirety of Zoku’s family wealth faded off the hands of his grieving father who found refuge in wines and playing cards.
And everything that Zoku had, vanished before his very eyes.
And the tragedy just started.
Angered by the loss, not just of his mother but even his father and their highly coveted life, Zoku found a friend in rebellion. He did everything that his father forbade him to do, and lived a life that he pleased.
For years he lived a life of anguish, of secret pain and longing for a family, for a mother and a father.
Zoku was alone, Zoku was looking for love and affection…
…but he never found it.
Who would know that the boy in the story has grown into a young man now, studying in one of the most prestigious universities of the country, serving passionately his fellow students and performing well in his academic persuasions? Even surprisingly, he is considered everybody’s friend.
At the moment, he seems soft and innocent.
… but deep inside, Zoku is so alive.
So be careful, the young man might seem typical, but he’s not…
as for you know, Zoku is a DEVIANT - he was always been, and will be.
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